Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Once again, cultural appropriation is igniting a flurry of controversy — and for the umpteenth time, the case relates to black women’s hair. Allure magazine finds itself in the middle of a stormy response to a hair tutorial published in its August 2015 issue titled, “You (Yes, You) Can Have An Afro.*” The asterisk reads: “even if…
Soylent, the meal replacement that has caught on among brogrammers in Silicon Valley, has a new bottled version that makes it even easier to drink down breakfast, lunch and dinner without ever having to chew anything. Beyond the ease of consumption, Soylent’s marketing push revolves around offering maximum nutritional bang for the buck. At $2.42…
Forget daily handfuls of almonds and blueberries — the key to a long life is a healthy dose of the Champagne of Beers. According to The Record, a 110-year-old New Jersey woman named Agnes Fenton, who celebrated her birthday last Saturday, chalks her long life up to the wonders of the Miller High Life. Fenton…
Photo Credit Oliver Munday LIKE many others, I was stunned by the story of the Minnesota dentist who hunted and killed a 13-year-old lion, Cecil, in Zimbabwe. It was a brutal, senseless thing. The story has gone viral because it offers a strange alchemy of arrogant privilege, an animal’s being lured out of safety and…
Prayers up for hitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot that aspired to see the entire country via the kindness of strangers and made it as far as Philadelphia before getting curbstomped. Thanks to surveillance footage, we know how hitchBOT ended up as a pile of limbs: a brief clip shows a man in what appears to be…
First things first. “HitchBOT,” for all practical purposes, was a garbage can with an iPhone in it. It could not walk or stand or fire lasers or open a can of beans. By what standard was this piece of useless shit a “robot” in the first place? The answer: a shabby standard. A Canadian one….
Wilson has been living for several months on a nondescript street on the outskirts of St. Louis. He hasn’t read the Justice Department’s report on systemic racism in Ferguson. span id=”incorrect”>Wilson hasn’t read the Justice Department’s report on systemic racism in Ferguson. “I’m not going to keep living in the past,” he said. Credit Photograph…
Management at San Francisco-based Salon Media has agreed to start talks on a first union contract with its workers, it was disclosed Saturday. “Salon Media has agreed to recognize the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) as the collective bargaining representative of its editorial staff, whose decision to unionize was unanimous,” the union said in…
The liberal website Salon.com recognized its editorial staffers’ request to form a union late Friday, ending a monthlong standoff between writers and managers at the 20-year-old publication, International Business Times has learned. With it, Salon employees join The Guardian US and Gawker Media in choosing to join a union to improve working conditions. Salon Media Group…
One month after its employees voted to unionize, the Salon Media Group, a digital media pioneer and a stalwart of the progressive press, has still refused to recognize the move. Sources close to the situation tell International Business Times that Salon’s management on Thursday approached labor with a counter offer to their request to unionize…